Quick Cruz and Paul updates
Good news: Ted Cruz’s https homepage no longer 404s: $ curl -I https://tedcruz.org/ HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: cloudflare-nginx Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 02:03:46 GMT Content-Type: text/html...
View Articlefixing dlopen “no suitable image found” errors with node, sass and grunt
I ran in to this error today: $ grunt css Loading “sass.js” tasks…ERROR >> Error: dlopen(/path/to/project/node_modules/grunt-sass/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/darwin-x64-node-0.12/binding.node,...
View ArticleHOWTO make readline and history work with irb and rails console on OS X Yosemite
Here’s how to make readline (including control-R reverse search) and command history work with both irb and the Rails console with rbenv and OS X Yosemite (10.10.4). You need to install Readline first,...
View ArticleFixing git-svn on OS X El Capitan
When you install a new version of Mac OS X, git svn breaks. This happened with Mountain Lion and Mavericks, it happened with Yosemite. It happens again with El Capitan. Unfortunately, the old solutions...
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HOWTO register for a Verizon online account for your business land line
TLDR: Be sure to enter only the first 13 digits of your 16-digit account number. Use hyphens when entering the phone number. I recently had to register for a verizon.com account for the Verizon account...
View ArticleUsing a Dell DRAC5 with a modern browser and OS
The DRAC5 is a remote access card, letting you control a server such as the PowerEdge 300. With it, you can simulate physical access to the machine, viewing the screen on boot, entering commands and...
View ArticleHow to register a Kindle DX in 2018
I recently repaired a Kindle DX for a friend. As part of that, I reset it to factory defaults. When I went to register it so it would connect to his Amazon Account, I received the following error: Your...
View ArticleHOWTO fix ActiveRecord migration NoMethodError in Rails 5.2
Ruby on Rails 5.2 changed the method signature for ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrate(). The old signature was this: def migrate(migrations_paths, target_version = nil, &block) The new signature is...
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HOWTO update HP LaserJet Pro P1102w firmware on macOS
The current version of the firmware (20201023, as of January 22, 2022) for the HP LasterJet Pro P1102w only runs on macOS 10.14 or earlier. This is not great, as macOS 10.14 was released back 2018. If...
View ArticleHOWTO create a bootable USB installer for Mac OS X Lion
Here are instructions for doing this in the Terminal. (Other answers you find are out of date, as they change every time Disk Utility’s UI changes, which is a lot.) Before you begin, make sure to...
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